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    Interfax News Agency, Russia
    Aug 8 2008



    N. Karabakh should be involved in conflict settlement process -
    Armenian defense minister

    STEPANAKERT


    Armenian Defense Minister Seiran Oganian has insisted that
    Nagorno-Karabakh officials should take part in negotiations on
    settling the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh between Azerbaijan and
    Armenia.

    "Nagorno-Karabakh should definitely be actively involved in the
    process of settling the Karabakh conflict," Oganian told journalists
    in Stepanakert on Friday.

    "In any case, questions that will arise at the last stage of the
    settlement process will have to be discussed with the people of
    Nagorno- Karabakh, and therefore, this will require the beginning of
    new negotiations," he said.

    Asked whether the current outbreak of violence in South Ossetia could
    affect the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh, Oganian said, "This should
    consolidate our people, because we can oppose any challenges only if
    we are united."

    In the meantime, Baku believes it has every opportunity to regain its
    territorial integrity within the international law, Azeri Foreign
    Ministry spokesman Khazar Ibrahim said.

    "Azerbaijan does not follow anybody in its policies, but, on the other
    hand, I must point out once again that Azerbaijan has every
    opportunity to restore its territorial integrity within the framework
    of international law. And we will use these opportunities," Ibrahim
    told journalists on Friday, when asked whether Azerbaijan could resort
    to military force to resolve the problem of Nagorno-Karabakh,
    something Georgia is apparently trying to do now with regard to South
    Ossetia.

    Ibrahim claimed that Armenia does not wish to resolve the Nagorno-
    Karabakh conflict in a peaceful way.
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